I’m going nuts. This girl I know who is also on LJ… she’s done it again. I haven’t complained before because she reads my journal. Well I finally made a filter. Because I just have to get it out.
OK… to sum up some things she’s done in the past:
I put my house on the market. Well she decides she has to move as well so puts hers up. Then calls and rambles on end about how fast her house was going to sell because she priced hers affordable and no one wants to spend more than 150k on a house. She knew my house was listed over 200k. She then went on to say how her house is better than mine. And she’s going to be sad to move out of it, but it doesn’t make sense for her family the way it has grown. (It is a four bedroom house with 2 bathrooms an eat in kitchen, living room, den, mudroom. Fenced back yard. Patio. She has three kids, two girls and a boy. Home was built like 40 odd years ago. She had it listed 100k under mine. Exactly. She wanted 114 and I wanted 214.
Once her house sold I had to hear her go “I’m so glad my house sold in 20 days! What a relief this is!! I’m so glad I made it affordable to upper middle class.” Her house sold mid may. As we all know, mine has been listed since February.
Other things she has felt the need to argue with me on is the “fact” that cordless phones do not have removable batteries. And she is glad she has this great “new” thing with her expensive cordless phone that allows you to change batteries. When I told her that all of my cordless phones had batteries that were removable she told me I was wrong.
She also asked me why my website wasn’t more professional looking. She asked why I didn’t try harder and told me her website was better than mine. Things like this.
This is just a bit of the stuff… anyway… so today she comes over to watch Charmed because even though she has a DVR (after I recommended it) she doesn’t bother to double check listings and so she missed the last hour of the finale. I’m sorry, I trust nothing… especially for finales where times change and things extend and the like? No way… I check, double check, and often triple checked. And especially for things that I really like, such as Charmed which is probably her favourite show. She named her pets after characters on this show for crying out loud. Well she’d been asking for a month to come see it.
So she comes over and watches it. Then she gets into this argument over if fire is a demon trait or not. I said no because they said that the firestarter kid wasn’t evil. They were trying to protect him from the source of evil basically enslaving him and torturing him and turning him into a bodyguard for the Source. But the kid was good as a lot of firestarters are. She said that fire is always a demon power on the show.
Then she told me that the desert is ugly and that it is always red and gross. Well I lived in the desert. Outside my backyard I had a fenced in area of grass and then there was a rise of sand and as far as the eye could see past that rise was sand. And it was sand coloured, not red. But she told me I didn’t know what I was talking about. So I told her that the dunes in Star Wars were there outside of Yuma and she goes “You mean the dunes from the beach?” I said “That wasn’t a beach. There are these great dunes outside of Yuma that people come from all over to ride their dune buggys on.” She told me I was wrong and that Star Wars desert was filmed at a beach. Even though the town is very proud of the fact that Star Wars was there and all. She wraps it up getting testy and goes “Why do we always do this?” We? We? We do what?
So anyway… I don’t know if I’ll see her again before I move. At this point, I think I’m glad. I just don’t know how much more of it I can take. 😦 I really do try to be friendly with people… but what the heck? I don’t understand.
tauzero said:
She sounds like someone who is very jealous of you and what you have made for yourself in life. She also sounds like a know it all that needs to grow up and get a clue… Sheesh, cordless phones do not have removable batteries?!?! They have had removable batteries since they were first invented! (AFAIK) Next thing she will say is cars run on water and ceiling fans only turn one way.
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velvetcat said:
Poor you
((Oz)) Do I empathise.
I’ve a friend like that. She always knows just what to say to be contrary, an amazing ability these types have.
I’ll never forget the time after returning to work from my holiday. She stopped by, no hello, no glad to see you back, instead I got “I heard it rained the whole time – what a horrible holiday you had blah blah…” Someone with me commented how it was the most negative awful greeting she’d ever heard.
Oh and it hadn’t rained every day, it was quite lovely. lol
Sorry, got a bit carried away. These types are poison – best to be labeled and avoided. 🙂
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brycen said:
Is her name Becky?
Sorry just had to ask. I knew a lady in Cali who was just like that. She always had to be better than me. She would get really nasty about how cruel I was to keep Nyssa as an Only. When I mentioned I wanted up in a 3 bedroom apartment, she suddenly wanted to move to the 4 bedroom apartment. It went on and on.
The worst part was her daughter was horribly rude to Nyssa and Nyssa would act out against her daughter. I was the lousy mother when that happened. The fact that her child was a rude mean snot who would torture Nyssa did not ever register in her mind. UGH.
People like this are not worth being friends with. Of course you will be out of there soon and you can forget about her.
How is the packing going? I am sure your house will move soon. Hang in there and do not let her get you down.
Brycen
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Lady Ozma said:
See that’s what I said
I told her I had never seen a cordless phone that had a battery hard wired in so that if the battery is shot you are out a phone. WTF??? That would be DUMB. Though just hte way to draw more money so I’m surprised more aren’t like that. But she says those two little wires that go from a lot of the lower end phones and into the battery pack means that it is hard wired in and you can’t take the battery out. Erm… OK… not how it has ever worked for me, I’ve always been able to get and replace.
She’s making me crazy. I mean I dread her coming over. She’s great at the drop in. *SIGH*
She’s a big Diablo 2 player. So she thinks she’s a gamer. Her son told me Halo was not the game to have for XBox. Regardless of the fact that XBox actually made a special edition Halo bundle. And that all these magazines and jazz gave Halo an award and have been quoted saying basically that if you have an xbox you get halo. Well she told me today in this snooty voice that she doesn’t like games like that because they are dumb. OK… in my book? Diablo 2 vs Halo. OK in Halo you get to go from fist person point of view as opposed to overhead. Well yay, I like that more. But the two games are basically the same thing. “Kill the beast.” In one you hack and slash and in another you boom and shoot. So what’s the difference? Other than better graphics? This was another argument… I just don’t get it… what is the bloody point?
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Poor you
Ugh! What a nightmare!
I’ve taken to calling her Pita. Like Pita bread. HAHA… Stands for Pain In The Arse. Because that’s what she is.
She’s definately creepy. She ran out and got a digital camera because I had one. She sold her house and moved because I was. She got the same printer I have, she thought it was cool I had a website so she made one, and the last creep out straw… she did the drop in and saw I had picked up these little radios so that we could talk. (Keep track of kids nad that sort. Good camping idea but we thought it would be good for the trip out to VA too.) Well she just HAD to scurry over and pick up a set for herself. AUGHHHH
Anyway… Saturday I move and no longer will see the PITA
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Is her name Becky?
Nope…
You know, I can picture her being nasty about that because this gal got nasty over naps. I’m not kidding. She told me ALL children need naps. And that I am wrong for not forcing my children to take naps. She makes her kids come home from school and get into bed. Of course she also says her kids are ADD when I know for sure her daughter is not. Her daughter has absolutely no trouble staying on task… as long as she knows you are watching her. She’s one of those attention needy kids. Because her mother coddles her. She says her kids don’t need medication during the summer. That was the first sign something was hinky. But anyway I digress. She totally went off on me one afternoon and ranted about the fact that I do not force my 7 year old and 5 year old to take naps. you know what? If my kids need to nap, they go and lay down. Once in a while they do… but generally they do not. Where does she get off? She told me I was mean and I didn’t put their best interests first. *SIGH* I know she’s made her 12 year old “take a nap”. Goodness knows what he really does. Of course this is the same 12 year old who got suspended from the last three days of school and she didn’t punish at all. In fact she took him to see the new Harry Potter movie and clothes shopping.
The packing is just about done. Thank goodness. I’m about ready to go. Can’t wait!
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brycen said:
Re: Poor you
Hahaha I used to have a red tailed shark in my fish tank named Pita for the same reason. Of course he was a pita because he would filter jump all night long and keep us awake. The lights would go out and you would hear all this splashing.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Poor you
HAHA poor Pita fish…
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